Comments on: PND’s not dead yet.. http://www.edparsons.com/2008/04/pnds-not-dead-yet/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.edparsons.com/2008/04/pnds-not-dead-yet/#comment-1351 Tim Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:12:50 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=673#comment-1351 Hi Ed I think for in-vehicle PND's still have a lot of life left in them. 'Personal navigation' (ie on-foot) is where mobile satnav has significant potential. But... it has to be v easy to use, for me the UI benchmark has to be the safari / GMM integration on the Iphone, ie click on a google maps link on a webpage, GMM is automatically fired up and the location appears as a pushpin that you can save/navigation to/from. This also brings up another interesting possibility. Could kml become a defacto standard for exchanging PoI's etc between PND's? Just as GMM supports a subset of kml. Hi Ed
I think for in-vehicle PND’s still have a lot of life left in them. ‘Personal navigation’ (ie on-foot) is where mobile satnav has significant potential. But… it has to be v easy to use, for me the UI benchmark has to be the safari / GMM integration on the Iphone, ie click on a google maps link on a webpage, GMM is automatically fired up and the location appears as a pushpin that you can save/navigation to/from. This also brings up another interesting possibility. Could kml become a defacto standard for exchanging PoI’s etc between PND’s? Just as GMM supports a subset of kml.

]]> By: Chris Faulkner http://www.edparsons.com/2008/04/pnds-not-dead-yet/#comment-1350 Chris Faulkner Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:13:22 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=673#comment-1350 You want to know why people have stopped buying. Perhaps it is simply because we have reached the saturation point for gadget-philes. The rest of the market are able to look unemotionally at the cost / benefit of a sat nav and have decided it is coming up short. "are there a group of potential consumers who still find the whole business too complicated and expensive for their needs ?" I am a potential customer but am I disturbed by complexity or expense ? Not on your nelly ! The thing that puts me off is the safety implications. Having a moving display slap bang in the middle of your windscreen is inherently dangerous. It physically reduces your ability to see pedestrians/cyclists/ etc and is mentally distracting. You want to know why people have stopped buying. Perhaps it is simply because we have reached the saturation point for gadget-philes. The rest of the market are able to look unemotionally at the cost / benefit of a sat nav and have decided it is coming up short.

“are there a group of potential consumers who still find the whole business too complicated and expensive for their needs ?”

I am a potential customer but am I disturbed by complexity or expense ? Not on your nelly ! The thing that puts me off is the safety implications. Having a moving display slap bang in the middle of your windscreen is inherently dangerous. It physically reduces your ability to see pedestrians/cyclists/ etc and is mentally distracting.

]]> By: mpd http://www.edparsons.com/2008/04/pnds-not-dead-yet/#comment-1352 mpd Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:46:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=673#comment-1352 You've fallen into their fiendish trap! You’ve fallen into their fiendish trap!

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